| Show f INSIDE STUFF By PAUL MALLON MALLONI I WASHINGTON June 5 5 If If all aU the thc whispers about President Roosevelt's Roose inner circle were consolidated into one big wind it Gossiper w would 0 u I 1 d at least leas Are All MI Wet Wd blow blow- the roof of oft oftOn On Situation the White House More windy misInformation mis mL- Information ha has been circulated on that subject than on any other since the new deal started The president is pictured by blowhards blow blow- bards hards as a rather vacillating person und under r the domination of a a crowd of oC college professor sor theorists or b a a S gang of or inexperienced intellectual radicals or c the feminists of his fl or official household The most popular current yarn L Is Ls that the man who is really running the country Is Professor Tugwell Another An other concocted by bya a prominent Democrat Dem Dein is that Mrs Roosevelt is the thc No 1 adviser of or the new deal If It the roof root ever goes off of the White WhiteHouse House you OU will find a somewhat di dif different ferent inner situation to I. The Tugwell illusion has grown up around the fact that he is the most talkative of or the new dealers He writes for magazines and makes speeches giving ing interpretations far beyond the scope of the agricultural section in which he is involved People Peo Peo- pie pIc who read and hear naturally arc are led to the conclusion that he sits at atthe atthe the right hand of or the presidential chair The truth is that Professor ProCessor Tugwell rarely goes around to the White House Hous He has a theory apparently for tor er e every issue but the only Tugwell theories which reach the executive ve mansion are arc tho those e concerning the farm problem Even these are not usually conveyed convened to Mr Roosevelt by Tugwell but b by Agriculture Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Wallace who really is in the first circle o of Wh White te House advisers Tugwell works with Wallace and Wallace works with the White House entirely in connection 1 with farm policies Tugwell is not at all a No 1 brain truster trusler in the same sense that Pro- Pro lessor Raymond Haymond Moley was Moley ran in and out of or the White House on ona a d dozen zen subjects every day His influence influence in fluence was as widespread Tugwell's influence outside the theA theA A A A has ha not even been strong enough h to get his pure food and drug bill through congress a 4 In the matter of Dt feminine influence the White House appears to be just about an n average American house house- hold Mrs Roosevelt is deeply interested interested inter inter- ested eted in social problems and teach teach- ing She is inter inter- White House ested also in t the h c 1 I h Like Most lort womans woman's homes in U. 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S lion tion end of poll poll- ti tics but not in politics poli tics generally There have ha been obvious occasions when hen the first lad lady initiated new deal deat moves The two outstanding ones arc are the West Vest Virginia homesteading and cleaning up the alleys of ot the District of ot Columbia Those are the types of oC problems in which her in in fluence Is important Regarding several other matters she he has been unable to convince Mr Roosevelt Roosevell that she was right S Whatever cr influence Is wielded by the colle college e professors is similarly re- re Mr Roosevelt's advisers cannot be listed accurately as No 1 2 and 3 in n relation to their importance They do not work that way They are arc worked in relation to subjects which they handle Imagine a large wagon wheel and you will get the idea Mr Roosevelt Is the hub Equally powerful spokes run out to the rim Each spoke is a subject They could be identified a as follows Social reforms reforms Miss Miss Perkins Senator Sen ator tor Wagner General Johnson Legislation Senator Byrnes Representative Representative Rep Rep- Rayburn n and occasionally occasional occasional- I Iy ly the nominal leaders Farm Wallace Farm Wallace Tugwell Relief Relief Harry Harry Hopkins Hopkin N R It A A General General Johnson Rich Rich- berg Politics Politics Louis Louis Howe Postmaster I General Farley Securities James James Landis Each of these people is a strong trong influence in in- fluence in his own field Held but few have any influence outside their pa lar lal field fjeld They consult the president and sometimes put over their ideas Sometimes the they fail There never has been an nn occasion hen they all got together at once in i the ine presidential presence S e as Only a few of ot these really are arc close friends friendS' of oC the president If It you start start- started ed d picking his inner circle of friends you OU would have a Roosevelt's different list of Friends friends Differ names You would From rom Advisers Ad tart start off oft with the W White h i I e H House o u s e c clique ique It Is the Louis Howe gang in in- eluding Stephen Early Miss Mar Mar- Marguerite Le Lc Hand et al They are arc the official family circle Close also aloo are Treasury Secretary Miss Perkins Professor Raymond aymond Moley Hopkins No None of or these thes' talks taUs turkey to the president except possibly Howe All are unswervingly devoted to the cause or of i the bos no matter what he mil may d decide cide it is C Copyright 19 1934 for The Tele Telegram ram |
